Municipality of Roblin council discussed a new bylaw setting new “tipping” fees at the Roblin Waste Disposal Site.

The fees for residents and non-residents are effective Aug. 27.

To find out how much it will cost to dump a mattress and more, check out this week’s Review.

Roblin has been the hometown for its fair share of successful journalists. There is another one who is making her mark in the field of Indigenous reporting.

Beverly Andrews was a former Roblin resident who left the community after graduating from high school and pursued an education in media.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Hazel shrubs and the nuts they produce have been a long-standing theme in my writings over the past 25 years.

As we watch this year’s crop of nuts ripen, I have decided to revise and update an article I wrote in 2013. Hope you enjoy it.

Check out Moments in Riding Mountain in this week’s paper to find out more.

It has been five years since Parkland Psychology & Wellness opened its doors in Russell and owner Amy Wendell thought it would be a good time to re-introduce herself to the area.

“I hope to give you a sense of who I am, what my practice offers, and also shed light on other wonderful practitioners in our region,” she said. “At the end, I’ll talk about ways to navigate finding a psychologist/counsellor who could be a good fit for your needs.”

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Apart from some minor exemptions, the Manitoba government has banned cellphones in classrooms for the new school year to minimize distractions for students.

“We want young people to be able to focus in class so they can learn more and feel confident. We know cellphones can be a real distraction for students – studies show it can take up to 20 minutes for a child to refocus on what they were learning once distracted,” noted education minister Nello Altomare.

Find out more in this week’s paper.

Russell RCMP continue to investigate an ATV accident that claimed the life of a 19-year-old Saskatchewan woman.

On Aug. 11 about 1:10 a.m., RCMP received a report of an off-road vehicle collision in the Kilman Cottage area, located in the RM of Riding Mountain West.Read more in this week’s Moments in Riding Mountain.

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Members of the Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve are once again joining hundreds of thousands of people across the globe to raise awareness of the overdose crisis.

The community is hosting another International Overdose Awareness Day celebration Friday, Aug. 30, with an education component, an awareness walk, a sharing circle or grieving moment for loved ones lost to drug overdose, and lunch.

Read all about it in this week’s paper.

The dedicated and hard working members of Roblin’s Agriculture Society have put on another great show.

While there were some doubts about what having the annual fair and rodeo on a long weekend – the same weekend as the  Ukrainian Festival in Dauphin no less – would do to attendance figures, more than 2,000 people came through the gates over the five days of events and attractions.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Former Roblinite, film producer and director, Sam Karney of Ice River Films, has just completed a film project that he was very personally drawn to and invested in.

The documentary, Voices of Freedom, brought together stories from survivors of the war in Ukraine combined with a local musician and composer’s music, to create something meaningful out of the darkness of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Check out this week’s paper for the rest of the story.

It’s baby frog season, which means, if you are like me, that mowing the lawn has moved from a mere annoyance to an event fraught with tension.

I must be getting soft in my old age as I cringe at the thought of the lawn mower being a mobile guillotine, slicing up its amphibian victims indiscriminately.

Read more in this week’s Moments in Riding Mountain.